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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm ok with replace.

On 1/10/2018 4:21 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> Now I'm nit-picking but wouldn't "replace" be even better than
> "change"?  That's what I see used in other tools and it might be less
> ambiguous for translation.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Jeff,
> 
>     Please use "change" rather than "exchange".  Exchange means that there
>     is some bidirectional event taking place.  This is not the case here.
>     The existing footprint(s) is merely being replaced.
> 
>     I would prefer that the text edit control always be editable.  That way
>     the user can change the reference, value, or footprint identifier.  I'm
>     fine with pre-populating it based on a context menu selection but I
>     might change my mind.  Being forced to close the dialog and reopen it
>     using a different footprint just to get the value or reference I want
>     would be annoying.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 1/10/2018 11:11 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>     > This is primarily to address concerns that a lot of people can’t find
>     > the mechanism for updating footprints on a board to the current versions
>     > in the library [1].  But it also attempts to address ease-of-learning
>     > issues with the current Change Footprint dialog.
>     >
>     > First, the Change Footprint dialog which comes up in the “normal”
>     > scenario (with a footprint selection):
>     >
>     >
>     > Wayne has also proposed adding one when there was no selection which
>     > would be a cross between this one and the Update Footprints dialog,
>     > following.
>     >
>     >
>     > This is the no-footprints-selected version.  You could also imagine one
>     > that was a cross with the Change Footprints version for when a footprint
>     > was selected.
>     >
>     > Comments welcome.
>     >
>     > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466857
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466857>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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